Photography Workshop

Final gallery of students work will be open on September 22!

Are you a Boston based Youth Artist interested in learning the basics of photography and experiencing what its like having your work showcased in a gallery space? Urbano alumni and photographer, Faizal Westcott, will be teaching a two day photography intensive workshop that aims to capture the stories of our communities and speak to the current theme of Resilience and Sustainability.

This will involve using digital cameras. Youth Artists will learn the basics of how to use digital cameras, techniques for how to edit photos using professional grade software, and printing and exhibiting their work in a gallery. Students that choose to participate in the class will have the opportunity to sell their photos at JP Open Studios. This workshop requires no previous background or knowledge of how to use the equipment or technology, just a desire to learn photography and capture meaningful stories!

La Victoria: Resilience & Creativity

Opening Reception

September 5th, at 6:00 PM

Home is an experimental narrative film co-directed by Youth Artists and led by Darren Cole. Home is based in Boston with music composed by Youth Artists who were led by Alexander Barsov.

This film is centered around the theme of home. Structured around personal stories of different traditions, artifacts, practices, and more. Youth Artists explored their personal connection with the place, object, or idea that represents home to them. Together, these attempt to understand the question: “what is home?”

Opening Reception June 13 at 6 pm

Still We Rise, an installation by Urbano Youth Artists, and Alone Together, Together Alone, an exhibition of Nora Valdez’s work.

Valdez has been artist-in-residence at Urbano Project since April 10. Her ten-week youth project revolves around the theme of personal resilience and sustainability, focusing on art-making as an act of healing.

“At Urbano when you do an installation, everyone understands— you can put the process, concept, and visuals together, and everyone can pitch in because everyone here is an artist. The students have incredible talent; they are motivated and have the knowledge to go a little deeper. The group of students that come here are young artists, and the staff are artists too; it’s a whole team of collaborators,” says Valdez.

Valdez is leading a class in the studio at Urbano, working with youth artists on Still We Rise, an installation with an original music track. Many local youth have been subjected to various kinds of violence including domestic, bullying, psychological, and the violence of discrimination. Through writing, drawing, and 3D art-making, Valdez and students are exploring times of strength and healing, discovering their own resiliency in the process.

“Working in a new musical style got me thinking big, outside the bubble,” said youth artist Vinny Alves, who created the new track with mentorship from composer Alexander Barsov.

Alone Together, Together Alone is an exhibition of work by Valdez in Urbano’s front gallery. She presents a series of figurative sculptures and drawings honoring the heart, emotions, the home, immigration, and confronting difficult situations in the search for happiness. These themes originate in her personal and cultural identity.

Hemlock Hospice Artist Talk

With David Buckley Borden and Dr. Aaron M. Ellison

Friday May 11th, 6PM at Urbano Project

As we face ever-increasing challenges, ecological awareness is the foundation of environmental action and proactive stewardship.Borden’s creative use of the “proposal” provokes us to imagine a variety of environmental futures-- and urges us to do more for our planet.

This collaborative approach to environmental education is informed by ecological research and community engagement. Borden's accessible art and design ranges from speculative proposals, to silkscreen prints, to indoor and outdoor installations.

Proposed Futures: Then and Now

Reception

Wednesday, April 25th 6-8PM

Join us for the reception of David Buckley Borden's exhibition, Proposed Futures; Then and Now.

Borden's creative use of the "proposal" provokes us to imagine a variety of environmental futures and ultimately urges us to do more for the planet. Informed by ecological research and community engagement, Borden explores a varied collaborative approach to environmental education through accessible art and design, ranging from speculative design proposals, to silkscreen prints, to installations in both the gallery and the landscape.

Ben Cosgrove will also be performing during the opening. Cosgrove is atraveling composer-performer whose instrumental music is inspired by landscape, place, and ecology.

Proposed Futures: Then and Now

Artist Installation Tour

Thursday, April 5th 6-6:30PM

Please join artist David Buckley Borden in a installation tour through his new exhibition, Proposed Futures; Then and Now. Borden will guide guests through his proposal-based installation at Urbano Project. Borden's interdisciplinary installation revolves around the conceptual proposal, both solicited and unsolicited, as a proactive creative medium to imagine environmental futures.

Join us for the premiere of the Tortilla Social, a film documenting Urbano Artist in Residence, Salvador Jiménez-Flores' Tortilla Social project, as we close the Encounters exhibition at Urbano! Prints made by Salvador Jiménez-Flores will be for sale. Tortilla Social was shot by Darren A. Cole and Faizal Westcott and edited by Darren A. Cole.

Popcorn will be provided! This is event is free, open to the public and family-friendly!

Tortilla Social is an interactive printmaking and food workshop using a multi-functional tortilla press designed and led by Urbano artist in residence Salvador Jiménez-Flores. Participants of all ages have the opportunity to use the tortilla press to make their own art print and to eat freshly made tortillas.

Tortilla Social was made possible with funding by the New England Foundation for the Arts' Creative City Program, with funding from The Barr Foundation and with additional support from the Boston Foundation. Tortilla Social has also partnered with the Urbano Project and Hyde Square Task Force as community partners on this project. RSVP suggested via Facebook.

Join us for the final exhibition of Tortilla Social at Urbano for a screening the Tortilla Social documentary and an exhibition of the prints created during the workshops across Boston! If you can't make it to the opening event, the exhibition will be open through March 2nd, 2018!

Tortilla Social is an interactive printmaking and food workshop using a multi-functional tortilla press designed and led by Urbano artist in residence Salvador Jiménez-Flores. Participants of all ages have the opportunity to use the tortilla press to make their own art print and to eat freshly made tortillas.

Tortilla Social was made possible with funding by the New England Foundation for the Arts' Creative City Program, with funding from The Barr Foundation and with additional support from the Boston Foundation. Tortilla Social has also partnered with the Urbano Project and Hyde Square Task Force as community partners on this project.

Urbano teaching artist Mary Teuscher and Urbano alums reconvene for a contemporary dance performance as part of Urbano Encounters, a retrospective celebrating Urbano's 8 year anniversary of art for social change.

Mary Teuscher is a bilingual teacher, freelance dancer and choreographer, who led the project, Imagined City in 2016 within Urbano's theme of the Commons | The Other that was presented at the Egleston Winter Festival.

Join Urbano artist in residence Salvador Jiménez-Flores for an interactive printmaking and food workshop using a multi-functional tortilla press. Participants of all ages will have the opportunity to use the tortilla press to make their own art print and to eat freshly made tortillas.

This event is part of Urbano Encounters public programming in celebration of Urbano's 8 years of art for social change.

Tortilla Social was made possible with funding by the New England Foundation for the Arts' Creative City Program, with funding from The Barr Foundation and with additional support from the Boston Foundation. Tortilla Social has also partnered with the Urbano Project and Hyde Square Task Force as a community partners on this project.

Join us for an evening of poetry with performances by Margorie Agosín, Sara Rivera, and Urbano youth artists as part of Urbano Encounters, a Retrospective celebrating Urbano's 8 year anniversary.

Marjorie Agosín is a poet, human rights activist and literary critic. Her work inspired by the theme of social justice and the pursuit of remembrance and the memorialization of traumatic historical events both in the Americas and in Europe.

Sara Rivera is an interdisciplinary artist and writer from Albuquerque, New Mexico who shares a five year history with Urbano as a teaching artist. She's led projects, New Literary City, The Portrait Gift, Searching Lines and Intersections.

Join Urbano artists in designing and screenprinting a series of limited edition tee shirts and posters. This is a two-part workshop series facilitated by printmaker and Urbano teaching artist, Amelia Spinney.

On October 28th, participating artists will create original designs for printing on the following Saturday, November 4.

Participants can take home a printed tee shirt or poster and printed materials will also be available for sale after the workshop.

Please ensure you are able to attend both sessions before confirming attendence.

Join Urban artist-in-residence Salvador Jiménez Flores for an interactive printmaking workshop using a multi-functional tortilla press! Participants of all ages will have the opportunity to use the tortilla press to make their own art print. Workshop are from 12-3pm and then again from 6-9pm!

Witness 8 years of dynamic experiments in contemporary art, youth programming and social change in our retrospective exhibition and while getting to know the Urbano Community through performances, dialogues with artists and a beer tasting!